God Desires a Personal Relationship

God desires to have a personal relationship with you and is searching for you and striving to have that relationship now! 

A “personal relationship” is when two beings personally have a close connection with each other. They care about the other, trust them, commit to them, depend on them, love them, and believe in them. It is intimate and they desire to communicate with each other.

So how do you have a personal relationship with God? First, you must believe in Him and what the Bible has revealed about Him is true. And just like you have a personal relationship with your spouse, family members, and friends, similarly, you can have a personal relationship with God. 

To develop your personal relationship with God, you must get to know Him, not just know about Him. Many people go to church weekly and learn about God, but don’t really know Him (I know I did for years). Just like I could read everything about another person, I just know about them and don’t have a personal relationship with them. 

Ways to build your personal relationship with God:

• Be baptized and receive His Holy Spirit.
• Spend time in the Bible and get to know God’s ways.
• Talk and pray to God on a daily basis.
• Be honest with God and admit to Him when you are wrong (confess your sins). The Holy Spirit will let you know when you are wrong (sinful)!
• Praise God! You can do that secretly and outwardly to others and at church.
• Have faith in God when you are struggling with an issue. For me, this is one of the most powerful ways to get to know God. When you let go of anger, worries, and concerns, and give them to God, you will feel and see His awesomeness in action!.

The following Podcast is a great example of developing a personal relationship with God and finding true peace:

• Jesus Calling Podcast - In this podcast, Sonya Curry, mother of NBA superstar Stephen Curry, describes the changes in her life she experienced after she developed a personal relationship with God.

[3] Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. [4] For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love [5] he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— [6] to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.

His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.